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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."

"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."
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"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."

"I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else."

"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job."

"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."

"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."

"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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